Please follow the doctor's advice

In general hospitals, dining tables, bedside tables, and visiting chairs are all made of high-density plastic materials, which are durable and easy to disinfect.The ward here has taken a slant of no practical significance. A boxy solid wood dining table is placed near the window, painted with a layer of smooth and non-slip lacquer.

Xu Yiren is used to distinguishing the material of objects by himself, which is much more reliable than asking Elvis.He tapped lightly on the table with his knuckles, making a dull sound unique to heavy materials.

"Sign here, that's all." Elvis supported Xu Yiren's hand, and put it on the subject's signature position on the last page of the "Informed Consent Form", "After signing, press the fingerprint with inkpad."

Of course, the content of this informed consent form was completely different from what Lu Chuan read to him at that time. Xu Yiren had already made mental preparations, but what he didn't expect was that the content described in it was also so well-regulated.

From the possible benefits to the risks and discomforts, there are almost no exaggerated and ambiguous elements. All expenses during the test period are provided by the Nie Group. If any damage related to the project research occurs during the test, the subject can Get free rehabilitation treatment and high compensation, and make a promise in the "post-test results sharing" that you will be responsible for the health conditioning of the subjects and the project for life.

There are also relevant regulations on the right to "free withdrawal", but there is no clause on whether the subject can be sent back to the place after withdrawal.

In addition to himself, there were three people present, namely Dr. Sherrill, Li Chaoyue and Elvis.

Naturally, Xu Yiren couldn't see a single word, and all he could understand was the English version read by Dr. Sherrill and the Chinese version translated by Li Chaoyue. Give him another copy to sign, but Xu Yiren doesn't know.

When he picked up the pen, he had to hesitate for a moment - what he signed was not a letter of informed consent, but a letter of hard work.

But since "untold hardships" came here, how could they "flee away"?If Xu Yiren didn't sign it, they would definitely find it strange - aren't they volunteers?Why didn't you sign it again?Then I found out the car and the person who sent him, and confronted the situation on the road, and Li Chaoyue surfaced.

Xu Yiren immediately put pen to paper, signed his name with a brush, and pressed his handprint with his thumb dipped in ink pad.

"Oh! Your handwriting is so beautiful!" Elvis took the pen, "Next is the signature of the person in charge and witnesses."

Hearing the rustling of other people's pens, Xu Yiren frowned a little anxiously, but hesitated to speak.

Elvis asked, "What's the matter? Do you have anything to say?"

Xu Yiren did have something to say.

When he graduated, he signed a free body donation with the school through the Red Cross Society. He wanted to ask, if something happened here, could he be sent back to Shencheng.

Thinking about it again, not to mention whether people will take the trouble to send back a "he" that is useless for thousands of miles, even if they can send it back, if these people ask him, where did he donate it?How did he say?Shen Medical University?

At that time, these people will chat and talk, and you will communicate that Li Chaoyue is also a graduate of Shen Medical University, and the truth will be revealed to the world again.

Xu Yiren shook his head with a heavy heart: "It's okay. I'm a little thirsty, please give me a glass of water, thank you."

All he can do is to eat more and drink more, and try to suppress his weight.

"Elvis, does he want to drink water?" Dr. Sherrill could only understand simple Chinese, but he was not good at expressing it, so he communicated with Elvis in English, "Please tell him, wait a minute We are going to start the first "cell transformation", if you are not very thirsty before the treatment, you should not drink too much water, the increase in blood volume will bring inconvenience to the operation and reduce our efficiency."

Elvis turned to Xu Yiren and said, "There's no water."

Xu Yiren: "..."

Li Chaoyue: "..."

Elvis: "But don't worry, go to the treatment room with Dr. Sherrill first, and I will bring you some water later."

If anyone among the three present would secretly sign an informed consent form for him, it would be Elvis.

Xu Yiren pretended not to understand Cheryl's words, and asked calmly, "When will there be water?"

"Well, one treatment lasts four hours, and the water will definitely be ready when your treatment is over." Elvis said seriously, "You also know that we drink self-provided water, and we have to wait for the water to filter and settle. , to drink clean water, right?"

Xu Yiren was very glad that he did not believe Elvis' introduction when he first came here: "You are right."

The so-called "treatment" was carried out in a room that was warmer than the ward, and what Xu Yiren had to do was to lie on the bed in the treatment cabin under a quilt.

Judging from the voice, Dr. Sherrill is about 50 to [-] years old, and has quite a lot of clinical experience.According to the conversation between Elvis and Sherrill, Xu Yiren feels that this is a device similar to hemodialysis, the difference is that there is no vein bypass and angiostomy. Cheryl carried out "planned transformation" on Xu Yiren's cells through this device.

Except for "cell transformation", Xu Yiren can understand it, but no one can safely give his blood to someone he doesn't trust, and he is no exception.

"Your 'marker' work is about to reach a critical value, and you are preparing to gradually feed back the labeled glucose to your blood. Next, we will use the 'cell modification device' to promote the utilization of the labeled glucose in your body." Dr. Sherrill said, "Elvis, please translate for him."

"Okay." Elvis said, "Mr. Xu, you can go to eat as long as you sleep here! The whole process will not cause any pain or affect you. Didn't you have enough in the morning? We can start eating quickly!"

Xu Yiren: "...What will happen if you don't do this?"

After Elvis translated to Dr. Cherrill, Cherrill said: "If you don't do cell modification at this time, then this part of the glucose will re-enter your blood, and you still need to inject insulin for life, which is no different from the past. Different However, because the only insulin in your body promotes the marked glucose to participate in physiological functions, the pancreatic beta cells do not get the corresponding reward, which will make them develop a certain resistance, and it may become more difficult to re-establish the reward mechanism difficulty."

Elvis: "If you don't cook this now, then you will only be able to eat the kind of extra food last night."

Xu Yiren: "..."

Reluctantly, he stretched out his hand and let Elvis connect the ring with the "cell transformation device".

The basilic veins flow slightly slower than the central veins, and he guesses that's why Sherrill doesn't let him drink more water—because they're not meant to simply filter out the bad stuff, but to keep the blood flowing through it. Complete the "retrofit" when installing.

When he first entered the treatment cabin, Xu Yiren still felt hot due to the high temperature in the room and the thin quilt that Elvis had covered him, but as the blood flowed through the modification device, his body temperature gradually dropped, and his consciousness also slightly decreased. Somewhat vague.

He was like a traveler walking in the ice and snow, even though he was wearing a heavy cotton suit, he still couldn't stop his extremities from getting cold gradually.As for the road under his feet, it doesn't matter if he can't see the starting point and the ending point. The most heavy heart is that he doesn't even know when an avalanche will come from the mountains on both sides, allowing him to experience the impermanence of life again.

Just when he was thinking in confusion and couldn't find his way in the vast snow field, a sentence suddenly came from his ear: "Today's time has come."

Cheryl turned off the machine, put Xu Yiren's bracelet back together with Elvis and put it on, "The situation is almost as I expected, but I need to talk to him about something, Elvis, please help me I'll translate it."

Elvis: "No problem."

Xu Yiren: "..."

"Mr. Xu, when people are sick, they need to face the disease with a positive attitude and have the confidence and courage to overcome the disease. This can greatly mobilize the body's potential immune power and help patients recover sooner."

Sherrill said sternly, "It is not only a psychological suggestion, but also more effectively responds to your nervous system, prompting neurotransmitters to dominate the immune organs and prevent the selective destruction of β cells. But I am in You don't see enough of this power in your body, which means that our modification today may become useless with your metabolism before the reward mechanism is formed."

Elvis translated: "He said you should be happy, be happy."

"I don't know what is affecting your mental state, but it has already had a great impact on you, and it has also hindered our treatment." Sherrill said, "You should unload your psychological burden as soon as possible. , adapt to the environment here, and face the disease with a positive attitude, it will be good for you."

Elvis: "Be happy, and you will recover sooner."

Cheryl waited for a while, seeing that Elvis didn't say anything, couldn't help questioning: "Elvis? Have you finished the translation? Did you miss anything? I feel that your words are very short, are you sure he Do you understand what I mean?"

Elvis said innocently: "Chinese, that's how it is."

Sherrill obviously couldn't accept it: "Please go and see if Dr. Li is free now, and trouble him to come over."

Xu Yiren can understand without Elvis's translator. This is a psychological immunological point of view, but understanding and being able to listen are two different things.Of course he agrees that he should face the disease with a positive attitude, but... everything here makes it difficult for him to have enough confidence in the current treatment methods.

He hasn't even hypnotized himself yet, so how can he hypnotize the nervous system and immune organs?

Li Chaoyue seemed to be waiting at the door, and soon came over. After a brief exchange with Cheryl: "Well, I will talk to Mr. Xu alone."

He locked the door lightly, pulled up a stool and sat beside Xu Yiren's bed: "Brother Xu, Cheryl is half an old man, how can I have better eyesight? Why don't you let me be your responsible person?" People? Are you mad at me?"

Of course Xu Yiren was angry, not only angry that he killed before playing, but also angry that he didn't know the depth.

His voice was already hoarse, but he lowered it a bit: "I haven't asked you yet, why did you bring me here?"

"Who told you to lie to me!" Li Chao said complainingly, "Why didn't you tell me that you were sick?"

Xu Yiren really had to take a big breath before he could talk to him calmly: "I can't have a little privacy anymore? Do I have to tell everyone that I'm sick? You know I didn't tell you on purpose, why do I have to go to the hospital to find him?" I?"

"Hmph," Li Chaoyue was unconvinced, "Why are you, I am why."

"..." Xu Yiren was speechless for a while, even though he couldn't see, he still turned his head to the other side, "I think you are annoying."

After a few long seconds, he heard Li Chaoyue reply dejectedly: "Oh, that's different."

Xu Yiren touched his forehead and rubbed the center of his brows, his already suppressed mood became even more depressed.

Is there anything worse than saying something insincere and then having to stay put and enjoy the embarrassment of the moment in its entirety?He would rather Li Chaoyue turn his face in anger and leave, leaving him to fend for himself, than the two of them sitting opposite each other in silence.

Not to mention sitting opposite each other, he didn't want Li Chaoyue to see him at all.

Li Chaoyue said in a muffled voice: "You think I'm annoying, and you won't let me plan and reform you, but I'm not your person in charge now, why don't you actively receive treatment?"

Xu Yiren was speechless: "He told me to lie down, and I just lay there, isn't that enough cooperation?"

Li Chaoyue: "The patient's mood has a great impact on the immune system, which can be concretely reflected in the operation of your blood and organs. Cheryl has already noticed that your mood is abnormal."

"Can you see that too?" Xu Yiren seemed to have heard a fairy tale, "Are you saying that when I'm in a bad mood, my cells grow differently from others?"

"Of course, he is also responsible. If it were me, I could still tell you jokes. The two of you have a communication barrier..." Li Chaoyue suddenly raised his head, "No, Brother Xu, you have CET-[-] and can communicate. Why not let them know?"

The temperature in the entire treatment room is very suitable, and such an environment is actually very conducive to patients entering a state of cooperation with treatment.

But the strings in Xu Yiren's mind were always tense, and he couldn't relax at all.

There is no doubt that Li Chaoyue is talented and intelligent, but he has no such thing as "scheming".

Xu Yiren didn't know what kind of information he had compiled for himself: what weight, what background, what education background, whether there were any contradictions before and after, whether he could justify himself, so he had to deeply restrain everything he was once proud of, lest he A wrong sentence or a wrong action turned into a fuse of gunpowder, which blew up the cover with a "bang", exposing the two of them's acts of favoritism and malpractice in broad daylight.

In the first twenty years of his life, he walked in the sun openly, and he has never lived in such a precarious and backward manner—he just listened to Elvis's free translation, and was taken off the bed after eating He also pretended not to know the reason, and he could never respond to what Sherrill said, whether he agreed or questioned it.

Xu Yiren sighed, "Why do you say so?"

"You don't believe them?" Li Chaohe speculated hesitantly, "You don't want to talk to them because you don't believe them, you don't believe here, and... you don't believe me, do you?"

"..." Xu Yiren was speechless.

Of course he knew that Li Chaoyue's starting point must be good, but there is a cognitive barrier between them now. You say the earth is round, and I say the earth is flat. How can such two people talk about the earth?Still not fighting?

Li Chaoyue got up and took a few steps in the room, stood still not far away, and said quietly: "I have been ugly in handwriting since I was a child. At that time, I was in the same dormitory with you. It took you a whole month to write my application." Transcribed it for me in the morning."

Xu Yiren: "..."

He almost forgot, but Li Chaoyue still remembered it.

To him, this was just the tip of the iceberg of those little thoughts that he couldn't explain why, and there was nothing special about it, and there were countless similar ones.

"In the medical chemistry class, the professor draws the student number to answer the questions and counts the grades. I just pretended to be someone else and finished answering, and I was clicked. You didn't say a word and immediately climbed up the blackboard for me."

if not?Could it be that watching him cheat himself and get points deducted alive?

"Social practice class, the two of us caught up and went to the side of the road to ask someone to fill out the questionnaire. In the summer when the temperature is over 30 degrees, you give me a bottle of water and tell me to stand in the shade of a tree..."

Xu Yiren: "...Nonsense, who will fill out the questionnaire with you under the sun in over 30 degrees."

"Brother Xu!" Seeing that he was finally willing to answer, Li Chao threw himself back on the stool next to the bed, "I don't think this is something that ordinary classmates can do, am I just being sentimental? I remember we Isn't the relationship between the two of you very good? What's wrong with me now that I annoy you so much? Is it because...the thing that happened to go to your house the morning before I left? "

Li Chaoyue exhaled remorsefully: "I guarantee my personality, I really, really drank too much that day, and I did something wrong because I was in a particularly bad mood. Just pretend it never happened, okay?"

Xu Yiren: "..."

"I also paid for the apology, and I also apologized. You have a lot of fast meat, and you are still angry... hey?" Li Chaoyue's tone changed suddenly, "If you are still angry, why did you sign the consent form in the morning?"

Xu Yiren: "I'm already here, can I still not sign? Can I go back if I don't sign?"

"You mean, you want to leave?" Li Chaoyue's voice seemed to suddenly become hoarse, "You want to go back? You don't want to be here?"

Xu Yiren: "Can I leave if I want?"

Li Chaoyue said sadly: "Even if you don't want to see me, you should still pay attention to your body. We are confident that we can cure your illness if we stay here."

It’s okay if you don’t talk about it, Xu Yiren gets angry when he mentions this: “Have you been brainwashed, huh? What are you thinking now? Type 1 diabetes has genetic factors, the HLA antigen on the sixth pair of chromosomes is abnormal, Don't you know? You tell me how you plan to transform cells—I don't care about the newborn ones, and remove the ones without chromosomes. I now have 40 trillion cells in my body. Do you want to transform all my chromosomes? ? Then use a net to fish out my islet cell antibody? Do you want Yugong to move mountains, or do you want Jingwei to reclaim the sea?"

His tone was rarely severe, and Li Chaoyue said dejectedly after a thunderbolt: "You don't believe me."

Xu Yiren rubbed the center of his eyebrows vigorously: "Trust cannot be blind."